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While police organizations and Quebec’s opposition parties supported the Liberal government’s pledge to create a $30-million gun registry on Friday, a brother of one of the victims of the École Polytechnique massacre is spearheading the Quebec movement to have it quashed. Claude Colgan is the director of the Quebec branch of the National Firearms Association gun owners lobby group, which has 75,000 members […]

To deny Quebec the ability to create its own registry — for the willingness hand it over would have averted this legal showdown — is to profoundly misunderstand Quebec. For a Prime Minister who recognized Quebecers as a distinct society, his deeds fail to match his words.

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Two Quebec students who challenged the constitutionality of seven articles in Quebec’s law overseeing students’ associations lost their battle in Superior Court on Thursday. The students, who are from the student rights organization Fondation 1625, argued that the articles should be invalidated because they violate the freedom of association and freedom of expression guaranteed by the […]

At a time when secularism often seems as rigid as the most orthodox religions, the Supreme Court says that the delicate role of the state is in finding balance between minority perspectives and the collective good.

Hello and welcome to montrealgazette.com and welcome to Midday. Here’s the rundown on some of the stories we’re following for you today. Political leaders of all stripes are dumping on Parti Québécois leadership hopeful Pierre Karl Péladeau for saying an aging and immigrant population are holding back the sovereignty movement. With some analysts comparing the comment […]

A six-year legal battle over Quebec’s compulsory ethics and religious culture course will be decided Thursday morning when the Supreme Court of Canada is expected to release its decision in the case. Loyola High School went to court in September 2008 when the mandatory course, which looks at world religions and ethics from a secular perspective, […]

Hello and welcome to montrealgazette.com and welcome to Midday. Here’s the rundown on some of the stories we’re following for you today. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled not to reinstate the murder conviction for a man accused of killing a Winnipeg girl more than 30 years ago. That means there will be a new […]

The government should request an extension in order to give parliamentarians the necessary time to consult, ponder and develop this crucial legislation. Given this is a matter of life and death, it is more important that this be done right than done quickly. But there is no excuse for needless delay. It's time to get to work.

The 2015 report of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec says suicide rates have been dropping for the last decade. The 1,102 deaths by suicide in Quebec in 2012 adds up to 13.3 deaths per 100,000 people — on a par with suicide rates back in the mid-1970s.
Still, the report calculates that one Quebecer in 50 will died by their own hand.

The Supreme Court struck down a law in Saskatchewan that attempted to limit the right to strike of public-sector workers who provided essential services. Its ruling recognized the right to strike as a constitutional right. This is a major decision that will have positive ramifications for all public-sector workers.

At a press conference, Bellucci said the reason she’s here shooting Ville-Marie is simple. She was blown away by Édoin’s screenplay and loved the role he was proposing for her. She was even more sold on coming here to work with Édoin after she watched Marécages.